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Chateau Haut Brion 2009Pessac-Leognan
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Magnum (6)

"What a blockbuster effort! Atypically powerful, one day, the
2009 Haut-Brion may be considered to be the 21st century version of
the 1959...Even richer than the perfect 1989, with similar
technical numbers although slightly higher extract and alcohol, it
offers up a sensational perfume of subtle burning embers, unsmoked
cigar tobacco, charcoal, black raspberries, wet gravel, plums, figs
and blueberries. There is so much going on in the aromatics that
one almost hesitates to stop smelling it. However, when it hits the
palate, it is hardly a letdown...Readers who have loved the
complexity of Haut-Brion should be prepared for a bigger, richer,
more massive wine, but one that does not lose any of its prodigious
aromatic attractions." (100 pts. Robert Parker, Wine Advocate #199,
Dec. 2011)